The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-07
THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA.
An Entertaining Account of DIR. JaEkel

4 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF tnc
The natives of the Uganda district be-
heve in a supreme being, but they do not
worship Him, considering him so in
| finitely superior that the worship of in
significant mortals would not be recog-
nized by Hum: but they worship inferior
deities, especially the god of the Lake
and on q voyage make Ebations to Him
| They have also gosl of WARM fact,
they have their Jupiter, Neptune and
Mars Warrior chiefs, too, who have
died in battle are worslIiped as derli-
/ eols- THIS - very much like the Honle-ic
| mythology. The government of Uganda
Il basel Oh the fetIt.al system. The chiefs
| own lai,d and fulfill the duties of magis-
| trateS; but there is right of appeal. and
| important cases come before a chief or
| chiefs O. the highest order. The kingdom
| is really q EniitcI monarchy; it Is gov
| erncd by a council consisting of the king
| snd some ci.ief5 Of the highest order, in
| Guiding the chief butler, baker, and,
above all. the chef dc cuisine, the cook
| Without the sanction of these august
| personases the king can do nothing
| When ti.is parliament is dissolved-it sits
| for three LnoathS-thc members, like our
| Nj. +. 8, retire 20 their country seats.
| The king keeps an enormous harem, and
| poiygalny il an institution. Children and
| girls are solI Tor guns, ammunition, etc.
| In the court there are dwarfs and
| buiFoo.ls, Is there were at European
| courts in the Olden times
Baker writes that needles are in great
| demand-the natives being exceedingly
clever taiiors and furricrs-a handsome
girl may be purchased for thirteen
needles, 10 be exchanged in Unyoro for
an elephant tusk, which would he worth
eco or ESQ in England. In Unyoro
there is an established vaine for healthy
young giri-such n person is equal to a
single elephants trlsk of the first class or
n new shirt. Thus girl might be puIr-
chased for shirt, and subsequently ex-
changed for a large elephants tusk.
Slavery is n national institution of the
country. In Unyoro the girls are pur-
chased for various commodities, such as
brass col, bracelets, bark, clothes, cot
ton, Shirts ivory, etc. The Unyoro
country lies ut the southeast hank of the
Albert Nyanza.
DIR. Junker was allowed to proceed on
his journey in boat belonging to the
mission after he had made some hand
some presents to the King. This place is
at the south of Victoria Nyanza. He re-
manned here four days. Toward the
of fertility whic. they had on the north;
and roc.:y hills without verdurc, or
merely covered with st,inted mimosa or
coarse grass. rim to the margin of the
lake. where they end in naked rocks. In
the narrow bays formed Ivy these ridges
are here and there villages nesting
among banana groves.
DIR. Juni1cr now got to Ukumhi. Here
the hills recede again, and beds of am
batsI are found growing in the water.
The natives construct boats from this
weed, which is extremely buoyant that
boat ten feet long and four feet wide
made of it will support at least twelve
men. The lowest point at which this
pithy weed is found is about latitude II.
Other parts of the coast are often frinSed
with wateriilies, and the islands at the
south of the lake are as beautiful as fairy
Llnd. 1t is an everchanging Kaleidoscope
at one spot purple convolvuh and tho
graceful papri abound, around which in
Vulnerable quantities of water fowl of
every description hover and swim; while
here and there huge hippopotami are seen
foundcrinG, and croclsodiles basking
whcro there happens to be sandbanks or
grassy crce',s. In the middle distance are
seen plantain groves and grassy plains of
a vivid emerald, while in the background
stand gigantic trees with branches twisted
most Enthusiastically. From Ukumhi DR..
Junker went on to Ut Salala, where
there is church mission station. Thence
be went with his porters and donkeys
to Uyui. Uyui may almost be called a
town. 1t is one Of the largest col
lCctions of huts in Africa. Hero and
there are places shaded by immense fig
trees, under which the natives sit. This
is prosperous station. 1t is ten miles
northeast from Taoora, the great center
OF Arab trade.
The doctor then continued his journey
ovcr the Usolo country. through the
Rutal pass 70 Npwapwa. Mpwapwa
lie; on the western slopes of the Usagara
mountains, adjoining the vast tract of
forest which separates it from the table
E,nd IF Uugodo. Clusters of villages are
scattered all over the plains, their in
hIbitants supporting themselves on the
product of the soil and by breeding
cattle. The country is fertile, and pro-
duces large crops of dhurra, indian corn
and other cereals. The natives dwell in
mud luts, built square, with Il large
court house in the center, into which (as
il common in the Soudan) the cattle are
driven at night to prevent their being
''jumnGS, as the Cape expression runs;
the doors are strongly built of wood.
I,ic iIlhat iants are 4 mixed race of
Wac q and Wassassara and other tribes.
To:..!..l the yves. stretches an immense
plain; to tie north are fields of dhurra,
AMI I the south and east vast fOrests-a
paradise for sportsman. as all kinds of
G.lInt-iions. leOpart!5. antciOpes and
bIiSaiOcj rove there. In u southerly
direC ION tower lofty mountains: indeed,
il y,crc difficult to- conceive a more
romcntic spot than that where our
Traveller rested.-Cairo Cor. London